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Water Woman: Marion Stoddart's Crusade to Save One of America's Most Polluted Rivers
Lily Robinson - ILCN Program Coordinator
July 10, 2024
In the 1960s, a plot of land along the Nashua River was worthless. The waterway stank and changed color by the day, depending on what the corporations along its banks were disposing of. The only lifeform resilient enough to survive in the toxic waste oozing through it were sludge worms. But today, the Nashua—once among the nation's 10 most polluted rivers—flows clean. Children play by its banks, hikers traverse adjacent trail systems, and a 96-year-old woman canoes through its shade-cooled waters, indulging in the miraculous results of a lifetime of work she put in, defying legal and cultural adversity to clean and protect a watershed that others had lost hope in.
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Fundación Tierra Austral: The Chilean Land Trust Behind a Historic Civil Law Innovation
Lily Robinson – ILCN Program Coordinator
Javiera Yáñez - Director of Development and Communications, Tierra Austral
June 27, 2024
In Chile, thousands of acres of some of the world's most at-risk ecosystems are protected using the Derecho Real de Conservación, or real right to conservation, but less than 10 years ago, Latin American countries had no secure mechanism to protect private land.
Latin America was not alone. Across the globe, the structure of Civil Law legal systems pose challenges for private land conservation. But in the early 2000s, North and South American conservationists, lawyers and legal scholars, politicians, and others came together to make a small but mighty linguistic change that revolutionized land protection in Chile and opened doors across the world for others to follow suit.
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